A lawsuit filed last week claims that the city of Spokane did not refund wrongfully collected tickets that were issued through red-light cameras.

The class-action lawsuit alleges that the city never refunded citations issued from 2008 to 2011 that a judge ruled were illegal, KXLY reports.

Spokane added red-light cameras that snap photos of cars running red lights or turning without coming to a complete stop five years ago.

Officers review the tapes and issue citations. However when the system was first added, an officer's electronic signature for a ticket was being printed at an out-of-state vendor. A Superior Court judge said those $124 citations were invalid, but the lawsuit claims the city never refunded those drivers.

The lawsuit asks the city to repay more than two years worth of tickets, which could cost more than $2 million.

Elsewhere in the Northwest:

A woman who found $5,000 inside a metal pipe at a yard sale returned the cash to the owner. Danielle Pridgen was working as staff at an annual yard sale held by a nonprofit. But she was also shopping for one-of-a-kind treasures. While browsing she found thousands of dollars tucked away in a pipe. Pridgen returned the cash to the owner of the pipe. [KIMATV]

A Yelm woman was arrested for allegedly attempting to run over a Thurston County Sheriff's deputy. Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a Yelm home Sunday on a report of a domestic dispute and suicide threat. When the first deputy arrived he saw the woman driving erratically in the yard. The deputy stopped at the gate of the home, and the woman charged toward him, the Sheriff's Office said. [The Olympian]

Employees of a business in Grants Pass will not be charged for subduing an intruder who died while he was being restrained, the Josephine County District Attorney's Office announced Monday. The District Attorney's Office said the employees took Jasen Robert Lewis to the ground and waited for law enforcement to respond. Lewis died at the scene. [Medford Mail Tribune]